Archives for October 2022

The fluidity indicates the fact of the innovation of new media and digital technology can vary from a very big range. The fluidity highlights the fact that we can make one image combine with another with no conflicts so that nobody can recognize it without technical help. Compared with, traditional paintings only reflect on the object itself while the new form of media can be changed/beautified. As Ritchin mentioned in the article that: “this new medium may turn out to be as distinct from its predecessor as photography was from painting, or even as the automobile was from the horse-drawn carriage.” It is obvious that when cars first being invented, people could never think of them as we do nowadays.  Cars can then evolute to be subways and high-speed trains. But back then people only called it horse-drawn without a horse. Similarly, the fluidity of the digital can not be evaluated without understanding the power of the new medium.  

I think photography can reflect reality to a certain extent, but objectively speaking, the degree of realism of photography can change arbitrarily from 0-100, because it is possible that none of the works are real and all rely on the post and photoshop transformation, or they can be completely real, such as when you hold up your phone and take a real scene. But from a photographic point of view, it is impossible to measure. But in comparison, I think we can sort the authenticity of media as follows. text<book<VR<photography<video. because text and books are actually similar in connotation, they are things that can be constructed directly by people putting pen or typing, compared to VR in that it is more realistic because of the use of visualization technology, and most VR works are created based on reality. The difference between photography and video, on the other hand, is that video is the result of combining multiple photos, which means that to some extent there is more detail than the photo itself, thus reflecting a process. 

Name: Katherine Title of music: I’m the one Artist: BLOO

Official MV for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPXSa5Jg3DI 

The concept of my design is “falling”. The song I chose, “I’m the one”, is a very typical lyrical blues-style melodic rap by Korean melodic rapper BLOO. From verse to hook, the whole melody becomes progressively more aggressive, until the chorus gives the listener a compound emotion of landing and rising through the synthesizer. My work uses two letters, I and O. My work creates a black and white grid by taking the letter I, which is the abstract meaning of man and using “effect” to make this plane more three-dimensional and 3D, to achieve a three-dimensional arc of space, creating the feeling of falling. I think one black square assignment is the best way to create the feeling of falling. I think the one black square assignment provided me with the inspiration to create a sense of 3D through Gestalt’s principle of closure. I did not take into account the importance of the size and distance of the object to the sense of space, so the final three-dimensional effect presented by the assignment is not obvious. Therefore, in the spatial processing of sound visualization, I considered the final effect from both grid size and distance, so that the audience can clearly feel that this is a three-dimensional work when they see this work.

In the process of completing the work, the changes from the first draft to the final draft were actually very big.

Initially, my idea was to reflect the 3D effect by distorting it, but I tried almost all effects before I finally decided to use the fisheye effect, because it was the closest to the effect of the top being wide and the bottom being narrow, and then by connecting the letter I into the bottom line to achieve a combination of point and line. mid critique before I wanted to achieve a falling theme by scattering the round pieces in a big and small way next to the main image. theme. However, after mid-critique, I changed the randomly scattered circles to circles and circles in order of size to make the whole picture more harmonious and interesting, and ornamental. Also, I added scattered circles inside the main figure to make this figure more connected and complementary to the circles around the edges.
I think if I had time to change this work again, I would use another three-dimensional circle across the main image so that it would be a spatial composition with two perspectives, which would make the whole work more layered. 

 

The overall concept of my photo diptych is the contrast between colors and black&white. I want to express my idea thorough the strong contrast in the photo.
For the communication of the two photos, I wanted to show the contrast from different perspectives, mainly through the shift of angles. My idea is that I will take a colorful person holding a brush to paint a black and white portrait, and another angle I will look at the colorful person painting from the perspective of the person in the portrait (ps to black and white), so that there will be a strong interaction effect in the photo.
I will show the colored person in a way similar to a black and white sketch, which means that what kind of person will exist in what kind of perspective

 

In the 21st century, with the rapid development of technology, social media has been deeply bound to every person. On social media, people share their photos, their lives, their thoughts and feelings, and so on. Social media can be said to be another form of human expression of self-identity. However, everyone wants to be more beautiful and perfect, and this common goal has given birth to the “filter”. The birth of “filters”. A so-called filter is a tool that can directly make the picture in the camera more exquisite and beautiful when humans take pictures and is a kind of technology that modern humans are very much in pursuit of and love.

The feeling that social media brings to human beings is like the feeling that a filter gives to human beings. On social media, you will see many different people sharing a wonderful and sophisticated life. You will see your favorite bloggers sharing their lives, excellent grades, rich practical activities, fashionable clothes, fulfilling studies, and so on. While gaining satisfaction, you will also unconsciously start to compare your own life. Because people spend the most time with themselves, at all times you are observing yourself, so it is absolutely true, then you will feel inferior – why my life is not like this. Similarly, when you take a picture with a filter, you look so good and perfect in the camera, but when you remove the filter, you start to feel sad because of the contrast.

Life under the heavy filter constitutes social media.

Social media is a new form of filter.

 

Think about introducing a traditional custom to a person from another culture speaking a different language. That would be hard, not only because of not speaking a common language but also because of the whole different cultural background and experience. What about introducing it to an alien who has a different language and thinking system? 

In Story of Your Life, the alien whose body structure doesn’t have a front and back possesses a language that is completely different from human’s. Their writing and speaking languages are separate and without a linear concept. Perhaps in their culture, there is no consequence or result. Imagine how we can introduce human technology to them.

When we discussed how we are going to demonstrate what a filter is on social media and how it works, we struggled a lot with how to explain the process of “before and after” of the function of this human technology. Because of the language as well as the worldview of the aliens, they don’t consist in a linear sense. They may not know to read from right to left, or from up to down. And of course, using arrows would not make sense even though it’s one of the most effective ways to express information in human language. So instead, we gave up the idea of explaining the relationship between consequence and result and focused on what it would be like to perform such technology. 

We tried to explain the filter inside of a phone screen in this way:

In the image we created, we put two faces. One represents the real self, and the one with the filter is framed inside a box. The latter is a “better” and “upgraded” version of the former. It has cute cat ears, eyes with long lashes, a taller nose, and red lipstick. In this sense, we hope to let the alien understand that this technology we introduce is something that can make one’s face in another space different. And there are some circles at the bottom of the box, which is a cell phone, that represent options for different filters. The biggest circle in the middle shows that it is the one being used. And when it’s selected, the filter that shows on the face (or “things” that appear on the face) will correspond to the graphics in the circle.